Join Wally and Josh as they recount their adventures in Japan — including a pilgrimage to the grave of master filmmaker Yasujiro Ozu — and share some of their favorite works of Japanese cinema.
00:00:29 What we’ve been up to: Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas
00:04:10 What we’ve been up to: Film Festivals
00:05:00 Shai Carmeli-Pollak’s The Sea at Centre Film Festival
00:07:47 Our trip to Japan
00:29:03 Visiting Kita-Kamakura and paying respects to Yasujiro Ozu
00:39:18 Our quest to find Machiko Soga and Kogo Noda’s graves
00:45:44 The World of Yasujiro Ozu: Good Morning, Late Autumn, Tokyo Story, and more!
00:50:40 Takashi Miike’s Audition
00:53:22 Kiyoshi Kurosawa: Cure, Tokyo Sonata, Cloud, Chime, and more!
00:58:17 Obligatory Hayao Miyazaki nerd-out
01:00:01 Satoshi Kon’s Perfect Blue
01:02:36 Hirokazu Kore-eda: After Life, Shoplifters, Monster, and more!
01:05:29 Shinichirou Ueda’s One Cut of the Dead
01:09:01 Side tangent: Chris Smith’s American Movie
01:09:45 Mikio Naruse: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Sound of the Mountain, Yearning and more!
01:15:10 Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuichi’s Shin Godzilla
01:19:25 Kinuyo Tanaka’s The Moon Has Risen
01:24:14 Screaming Mad George’s The Guyver
01:26:35 Nobuhiko Obayashi’s House (Hausu)
01:32:22 The things we are thankful for
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